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 Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 2:28 pm
Ok so me and Zane are having a disagreement and he told me to ask in here. So the issue is he says in Asian mythology baby dragons are just koi fish. I said its also seahorses. So does anyone else know anything about it and some good places to look. All I was bringing up in my search was Yahoo! Answers and Wiki Answer
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Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 7:42 pm
So first off, there's actually quite a variety of Eastern Dragons. They often have elements of many creatures and many are shape shifters. In the case of koi, that seems to be a specifically Chinese legend and they aren't exactly "baby dragons". They are just koi that are transformed into dragons as a reward for completing a specific difficult task. I've encountered stories of humans becoming dragons and dragons becoming humans as well.
As for the seahorses, the only real reference to this I can find is from the anime and manga Fruits Basket, which claims that all dragons were once seahorses as an explanation for the dragon guy transforming into a seahorse. They claim in the show that it's from Japanese mythology that's not necessarily true and I can find no corroboration of the story.
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Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 8:00 pm
FWIW, Okamiden also shows seahorses as being baby dragons. Chibiterasu gets all his brush techniques from the children of the celestial beings that helped his mom besides a new one that they added.
But one of our friends said that the seahorse thing is from a name translation thing where in Japanese the name for seahorses supposedly translates to baby dragon.
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